Gnome keyboard shortcuts in FC7

[Richard England]

Phil Meyer wrote:
> Tim wrote:
>> Tim:
>>  
>>>> Sound
>>>>  Volume mute - does nothing
>>>>  Volume down - does nothing
>>>>  Volume up - does nothing
>>>>  and so on...
>>>>       
>>
>>
>> Rogue:
>>  
>>> I have got the first three working on my D810 and all of them 
>>> working on
>>> my mom's Inspiron.
>>>
>>> I am not sure about the other keys, but I am guessing that they work 
>>> too.
>>>
>>> What issues are you facing?
>>>     
>>
>> It doesn't work...  ;-)  (Sorry, couldn't resist)
>>
>> But being serious, I bought a new keyboard from the evil empire that has
>> a few multimedia buttons on it (Microsoft Comfort Curve Keyboard 2000
>> v1.0, USB), so I thought I'd have a bash at making use of some of them.
>> Volume controls, at the least, would have been handy, as my speakers
>> have none.
>>
>> If you (or anyone else) uses Gnome on FC7, and has these shortcut keys
>> working, can you have a look in the keyboard shortcuts preferences, and
>> tell me whether yours has different shortcut names for the keys
>> associated with the actions.  I'll just list a few.
>>
>> Action                  Shortcut
>> Volume mute             XF86AudioMute
>> Volume down             XF86AudioLowerVolume
>> Volume up               XF86AudioLowerVolume
>> Play (or play/pause)    XF86AudioPlay
>> Skip to previous track  XF86Back
>> Skip to next track      XF86Forward
>>
>> In the past (FC 3 or 4) I had to play with some keyboard mapping files,
>> creating a custom map for my other keyboard, and set specific names for
>> some keys. There were a few similarly named keys, but applications only
>> paid attention to some of them.
>>
>> Yes, I've logged in and out, rebooted a few times, swore at it, etc.
>> These keys are noticed being pressed by something, as I was able to
>> configure the shortcuts by pressing those keys, and those names appeared
>> in the configuration window.
>>
>>   
>
> Those are not close to what I have.
>
> Did you use: System/Preferences/Personal/Keyboard Shortcuts?
> If you do it that way, it will grab the actual scan code of the keyboard.
>
> This procedure works for all buttons that produce a scan code.
>
> On my Dell Laptop (work bought it for me!)
> Volume Down = 0xae
> Volume Up = 0xb0
> ...
> etc
>
> Good luck!
>

If you want to know the actual keycode and keyseym for any key press in 
Xwindows, investigate the X utility calle "xev".  It was available on my 
F7 installation and I don't believe I installed anything more special 
than some of the developers tools.

~~R